US 11,722,643 B2
Medical-use control system, image processing server, image converting apparatus, and control method
Masahito Yamane, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/910,368
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 18, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/010989
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 9, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/200193, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-062191 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0128027 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 5/268 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); H04N 7/01 (2006.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01)
CPC H04N 7/181 (2013.01) [A61B 90/37 (2016.02); H04N 5/268 (2013.01); H04N 7/0127 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical-use control system comprising:
a sending-side image converting apparatus configured to convert an image captured by a medical device into a transmission image to be transmitted via a network, and to send the image to the network;
an image processing server configured to perform image processing on the image sent from the sending-side image converting apparatus via the network and to send an image generated by the image processing to the network;
a receiving-side image converting apparatus configured to receive the transmission image and the image generated by the image processing via the network, to convert the transmission image and the image generated by the image processing into display images, and to output the display images to a display apparatus; and
a delay time control unit configured to obtain a controlled delay time based on a difference between a delay time in a first transmission path without via the image processing server and a delay time in a second transmission path via the image processing server, on a basis of a characteristic of the display apparatus, and to control a timing at which the images are output to the display apparatus.